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i t N ,..'l; .t JOHN Q. SCHELL General Managet RICK GUNTER, EditorialPage Nitor BILL MOORE and JOHN PARRIS, Senior Eclitors BOB TERRELL, Associate Editor LARRY POPE, Managing Editor Thursdoy, Feb.2, 1984 1\o Appeal? Please I A movement is under way 4mong some members of the North Carolina General Assem- bly to appeal a'recent federal eourt ruling that would require the Legislature to redraw the boundaries of five House and two Senate districts. , We hope they decide not to do it. The hide already has been Oayed from that dead horse. To pursue an appeal now would be an exercise in wishful thinking.. It also would be almost cer- tainly futile and inevitably ex?en- sive. ' The federal court ruling found that the boundaries of th6 Seven districts, as they are now drawq violate federal voting rights laws.. This is not the first time the North Carolina Legislature and the federal court system have been at loggerheads about voting district boundaries. Several times in the past the Legislature has gone to the mat with the courts. And the Legisla- ture has lost.i In every case the Legislature has been forced to appropriate considerable sums of money to pay legal costs involved. In every case attorneys already in the em- ploy of the state have been tied up for months in the same losing causes. A state senator from Dur- ham, in advocating an appeal, said recently, "I'm tired of the court system running the coun- try." Perhaps the taxpayers of North Carolina are tired of wast- ing money on futile }awsuits in. tended to preserve the legislative seats of one or more professional politiciars who might be dise- lected if the boundaries of their districts are changed to make them legal Anotler legulator, this one from Walce County, said the court ruling, if allowed to stan{ would "set a terrible precedent not only for. North Carolina but for the rest of thb country." He said the ruling wonld sig- nify that identifiable groups of minorities can force lawmakers to draw political suMivisions in which they become tlte majori- ties. Anyone who buys this line of reasoning is capable of believe ing that babies are found urder cabbage leaves. What the federal law does is to attempt to ensure that minori- ties are given a fair chance to achieve some representation in legislative bodies such as state legislatures, that they cannot be unfairly excluded from represen- tation by district lines drawn so as to ersure that minorities will forever remain politically power- less. The operative word is "fair" and it is part of the law of the land. Let's not have another ex. pensive attempt to stop the tide from coming in. The Legislature can find much better uses for the taxpayers' money. GTilEASHEVILLE CTTTZE . ,,iir,;r^,. ' g,AMES B. WILSON Executive Editor Poge 4 lEreensboro Daily Robert D. Benson, president and pubtisher Ben Bowers, Executive Editor John R. Alexander, Editoriat page Ediror Ned Cline, Managing Ediror PAGE 12 TUESDAY, JANUARY 3I, 1984 SECTION A Return to Raleigh . The N.C. General Assembly has two choices in the endless legal maze of leg- islative redistricting. Ii can return Io Raleigh for a special session to correct its error, or it can go back to court and rvaste more time and money trying to defend a flawed system. That's not much of a choice. But the General Assembly knew better when it adopted legislative redistricting plans in 1982 after long and heated debate. Now a three-judge federal panel has said what some legislative staff advis- ers were saying two years ago: Portions of the House and Senate plans violate the federal Voting Rights Act. In a strongly-worded opinion handed down last week, thejudges gave the state un- til mid-March to correct the plans or risk having them redrawn by the court. The judges said that black voting' strength was diluted in five House dis- tricts and two Senate districts, amount- ing to an unconstitutional submerging of the minority vote. Although an in- creasing number of black legislators had been elected to office in recent years, the judges wrote, "it has not proceeded to the point of overcoming still-entrenched racial vote polarization and indeed has apparently done little to diminish the level of that single most powerful factor in causing racial vote dilution." The lawsuit involved a challenge against the use of multi-member dis- tricts in areas where single-member districts with majority black popula- tions could otherwise be drawn. Guil- ford County is acutely familiar with the ' problem. Its House and Senate districts were carved up in 1982 to create a mix of multi- and single-member districts. The purpose was to create two districts rvhere black voting strength would be suflicient to elect black legislators. But the legislature foolishly declined ers. to take similar action in other areas with substantial numbers of black vot- ers. They included Wake, Durham, Forsyth and Mecklenburg counties. Legislators from those areas argued against single-member districts, saying. they produced topsy-turvy districts ancl actually digrinished the political clout of both black and white voters by reduc- ing the number of legislators a citizen may vote for. But U.S. Justice Depart- ment rulings in 1981 and lg82 made it clear that single-member districts should be adopted where there was a substantial concentration of black vot- Now the General Assembly should try again, and quickly. Timing is just one reason that the legislature ought to revise the districts pronto. The state primary election is May 8, and many candidates haye already filed for legis- lative seats. The legislature should ex- tend the filing period for House and Senate seats only and redraw legisla- tive distribts as quickly as possible-. It shouldn't be that hard ajob. In the five House districts and one of the Sen- ate districts involved, single-member districts can be drawn without affecting neighboring counties and other dis- tricts. But in the remaining Senate dis- trict, which already is a single-member district, the legislature will have to shift other district lines to draw a new majority-l;l-ck district. The legislature must correct its errors. Out of fairness, lawmakers should quickly redraw single-member districts in the affected areas so that the May 8 primary election can proceed as scheduled. And while they are in Ra- leigh, legislators ought to get used to the idea that single-member districts are the wave of the future, like it or not. wreck Bar: usin n, .r,.-^,., _-*i:i'itiig;1;ai':'liil'iili''tweighing 3.000.,^,,51 wreckin-g ball at demo i#iiiii.iffi J:'::itr,i.,,?j,,:y;;'ffi,::T.,i,x. fi,,itHl{i,f,'j;i***}ttf# i,,::,Hi.:flirlli"*.j1ri, :,.fi;j W stiir"';:;**#Il:": , -; i,r::,."t:I:yr*d;'b;;Hfi:r;;f*;'trff mffimffitrnffiffi;$ffffi o l+:'flr,r,,truilffi fit*l'*jii[]tlf':, ,ii;*g*r*r,',",:'; ;; #,,";i+$k]f.t:t-'",',ffitr tocAL From Charlotte And The Carolinas ( Business News, page 58) !,egislatioe P anel T o lleeida '--.a l{.C. Might Appeal Redistricting Case BY KEN ALLEN RaLldt Buralu RALEIGH - Support grew among N.C.leg' islative leaders Monday to appeal a federal court's decision that seven legislative districts violate federal voting rights law and must be redrawn. The nearness of the May 8 primary elections and the complications of ,redistricting contrib' uted to the mood. Also in evidence was resis' tance on the part of some legislators at the thought of being pushed around by the federal courts. "I'm gettlng tlred of the court system run' ning the country," said state Sen. Ken Royall, D-Durham, a member of the legislative leader' ship that will decide this week whether to appeal. In an opinion issued Friday, a three.judge panel in the U.S. 4th Judicial Circuit concluded that flve House districts and two Senate dis' tricts 'were Orawi.in such a way that "black registered voters (are) being srrh'norged ,rs a voting minoritr'." Ramsey RoyaII The judges gave the General Assembly until March 16 to draw new districts that cohcen- trate the black vote and allow black voters to "elect the candidate of their choice." Mecklenburg's eight-seat House distrlct and ths fotrr-srat Senate .list:ict that inclrr;{os Met:klerrburg and Caharrur: corrrrtics i I c among the districts the court said were un- fairly drawn. The others are four House districts that rep- resent Forsyth County (Winston-Salem), Wake County (Raleigh), Durham County (Durham) and Nash, Edgecombe and Wilson counties east of Raleigh, and a Senate district covering all or part of nine counties in the northeast. All but the northeast Senate district are multimember districts in which voters get to elect more than one person. The northeast jl'Jr.T,:li,llliilTr3l"{,iili,iilx""l;,1}:,1ff O a large, predominantly black area, minimizing the black majority. If the state doesn't meet the iudges' deadline in redrawing district lines, the federal courts could do so. Redistricting now r,r,ould require a special session of the General Assenrbll,, which several members sald Monday thriy aren't eager to do with elections approaching and a one-month budget session scheduled to See STATII Ntxt I'agc Ih # " ' :-r;' '; - ffijnffitoVittrds-q1,; . Leslie winnrir'iiiA:'tt"''tigt't t!t-"q 'who challenged tlf*t#%rlf;:"",H:' bv withdrawing from.the race for a'.;'t';;-s'iueiifie.eislative districts' l{r' M e c k r e n bu r s #,ff. r-"*'i*'.,iil1li-**" :*,*l;Yigi"iJ,'jiT"r'$ 3"t!'!r:ffi ii ffi, "m:1.'r$$9ry$if,:p311-;1x, Y#,!":I'?J'1,E iff RePrese.ntatives',- * Ms. Winner conbluded-th"t il,f: Yl;^,Yill,"":: ffi,'r rri'l.i',i'J'i;;q iliii""H,^.,'iJqiii'i: u#*{u'd";'r,,tlt':1,g,:q$,,0-',ers-9-tj'...y-:uli rui,iiiffiili i;il;-i;iinteftsts^3! ?-.t^119i9* ;:itlL*JLii'i:ru,F#-':iffi ll'sti:."Ti'lii**L::'Jllffi :T,;Jtensive experl' : .-r* ence in Politics. -':i;:',i iilii'iii.ttoi. stte aeciaed that her dutv io ner clients came first' - ^r:r:^i^-c riti't-'r lr ;gli}::1fl{j{lliil1iltli'itstayed in the ra.ce' fWi""E ",,,, Ifii*J5#1fir."1ilii*Jr;i aecision,tg=9o Bui she is also the. r,l Il ',1'"..]ii-;;i-" 'lll"j-".:''t";'H;"1.";;il of.her. t,,'l:.*h' rawyqr*,;rppre.sE?1il.s.lUt"Sq. tiFieii. "'l-'-'ll'9-!:i.$ ]":l ''-r". i:*io 'l--.J:,-J;}r..:.1'...-..tr----, ii' ,.' . .I :; -,t-',,.-s"rr. ''- fa "d. ' .. : ''':!' I Proof of t,frT#. ,S uffiIi:.;sffiff* itrgirl .lffitffi; fr^,t.t'it,ry:L'r' ]"t ':''i;," " ;$ffin:il*ji*ffi $'ii.*$4"],ti l$i:tTi tricts.was obviourlii an \ditoriat ""'fii..iiis w€€k' Y: 1"*"lST; Ril"riuffi;t;t-sliroach to the re' 'Jiii.iJti'"i- question' But that dges' ' '----^ rrainich oUf fespect for he.f' : t8li'li#' t -.i *'l'ii:|ff ii: ;'ffiil;irl" ner Personal si :l"riJLt'"v-61 the case; to adYo' ;lifi ;; iii a5-,c11';,'::i,l Ii.'Jl that cause mt8nl-'f,iii''"-ffi..._ - .. her own char99.11r i,nlll3l,t:1*iJ3"1::* i;:fl:',"f$"r:', lnterest" that It i il;ft""have ieno;eg :t:"f;l':tl-1i: i',tii*:li$r,ffii I election distrtc I lnqse that cou $fggi;Ei EiEI - €.iii:ii*Eilii qJ ,€ ;EE iEtSE !j ': . (l) 0=_o R ov) --5) F Bis'fr )Ia:tO . ,,E e+ g SISE:.E i*ie#iEE!, E E. '. I-ilIiE-gIgI s EEis.iEgi::ii I-,,iE:qii5.H'eEj F;l"..gs€sE".E.EE-Et $' lgiElsiii*il ea ' _-- ..1 + j: ;." '' '., , "i .IgnrgsEEli $.E i#iEiiE$i o C' Bs o -o o E B G' ! .2 b3 E- }R :! -' o) =o6'(, ^9ra =t2- c)o lE EE>o v: oo (l)Gt E{a Oa) ,i.irr.l ;o bl 3=l =€l6-l BEI qr'q)o eO E9o)E @(Dctr :-9 E r?.9 ii* c)It fc: '. (, ;.8 =u,,E C)re oo irE iE o,iarr;LI- I qo' €ob ivrQ i oo=i! i03 l'h >r -6cl =, or -Llc, lr. lc);h ql . t" ..1 . Lawjer - '{ .' ::'l .' ' :. . :. Gratified, Continued From Preceding Page had lobbied the General AssemblY earlier that Year when she 'was working for Legal Services. She was trying to salvage state Medic' aid benefits orderPd cu? bY the Reagan administration. - ' "iwas familiar with the legisla' ture.' I basically understood what they were talking about,". -she said. She sald she learned how to,be an effective advocate under d mentor, U.S. District Judge James McMillan. She was his law clerk in 1976-77. He taught her a Pre' carious balance between Eaking ch.a3,rg!!, ln;d,making -y3t qi,il. said. ""' '' ! : "I view him as a very wise Per' son, at once courageous enough to do what he thinks needs to be done, but not inclined to rock the boat any more than necessary to do what .needs to be accom- plished," she said. :'' Judge McMillan said he learned from -Winner as much as 'she learned from him. "I'd claim her for a daughter," he. said. "She's done so manY consistently good things." ., . ' She has spoken out against cuts L in aid to the poor, lobbied for Eliz' 6 abeth neighborhood conc-erns-and > Lst v""r ias President of the N'C' f association of Women Attorneys' i en Asheville native, she an' nounced for a state House seat as a Democral. earlier this' month' Her older brother, Dennis, is a state senator 'f rom Buncombe CountY. A politicol house divicled ... Prcsidcnt Ilcagan's ilnnoullce- ment that hc w'ill run for r':election is auti-cliniatic but nonetheless welcomc nc\t's to the nation's lte' publicans. N{r. Reagr.rn is tlte stetr nlaver ol tlte GOi' tcattr. IIe ltas no lha"lle ngcrs rvithin tllu part)' ranks. The l{epublican prcsidential nomi' natiorl i.'; lris for tbe asking' r\!though tht.'re arc factors that r:ould tantish NIr. Ilcagan's poptl' larity and tltrvar-t ltis attempt to servb a second lerlil - thc Arneri- can invol,venlcnt ilt Lt--llanon lnd the rvhopping budtlct clef icit, f or ex:lnrJrle - the prcsidettt's greatest assct during the lllti'l elcction cam' pai13n is lillely to l.re the infigttting within thc Dcrnocrutic PartY' V/hile Republicans rvill l;e able to build on an already' solid basc of support for a PoPttlar incunlbent, thc eight Democratic hopeluls will be verbally slugging it out along the campilign trail. The It+:publi' c{rns arc united; I)emocrats' loyal- ties are split. The Ilepublicaits can point Io some real success0s, pur' iicularlf in the area of economics; thr: l)cmocrats, rvho last hcld of fice rvhen interest rattes aud unemploy' nrcnt figures were high, rvill have to rely on promises. i\t the Inoment, lhe Democrats are a disortlcrly bunch, struggling to find a ttominee, without a clear direction or a clear lt'ader for their party. Rut thcy retaitr some poteirt weap,,ns. One is thcir edge in voter rt,gistration. A second is the fear many voters have oi the Reagan foreigir atld nuclear policies. - A thirrl is the rvidespread Jrerception t!rat l{eagan RePublicanism has little reai ptace for thc interests of wonlL-n and minorities. And a fourth is the feeling that with Sood timcs having', returned, a change can safelY bc tnade. The president's task is to calm the uuease caused llY some of Rea- ganism's rough eclges, without abandoning the policies that are re- sponsible lor recoverY at home and stronger standing abroad. T'mn Cuanr0rln Nnws Ior_t'E Nr_u IIICIIT\ITI) A. ()PPEI- l.t Ptc5idcnt ond Pubhrhc. TO}t URADBUI{Y ttd!n* tJ,bt tdfi.dt Pofr lll, .,,,,r,.rr,i..., DENNIS SODOfTKA, rsrnr.ryryfJa, llOllllR IO SU^liEZ, Ge,d aowt I(,E5OAY lrltiuaRY tt, lt3l t:r'' IIARK [.I ltRIt)(;I {1, ... '/ . ,'. ,- Re d ist ri c fi n g : lAp pea I ? $,/c rvould not trr!lu(. th:rt lJrlrtlr Carolirra's lt,1ii:;liltirc r(,(li.strictinl.i is purc as thc clrivt'n sno\\,. Ijut ncithur rvorrld ri'c iikc to sce tllo statc silnpl-\,accept tir(, last \t'cck's rulin.g .that tourrtvrvirlt' lt-largc Ir'gislltivu tlislricts likc ilceklcn- burg's are ll(,cossarilv ininricablr trr the intt,rests of blacl<s. -lhr, stato ought to llrl<e a closc krok at ap- pcaling tllat filrt 0f tlle ordcr. _ Wc rc-colinizr,that tlre nrlirrlg from llrc tlrrt,r.-;trtl11r' flrt,.1;s1 P1l11,,I has a lut of lri,;iorr: hrhind ir. Ih(, pendulunr 0f political equalin, hrs srvun;.1 rVidcl5, in tlris c,Irrrrri,.,\t lhe nriddlc of tltP last con(ur\', tllP pertdulurrr ltlcl srvrrrrg sr) hr tllilt the trluality of virtually all lrllck Anrericarrs had btcn de'nicd. lI took a civil \\'ar to reverse tht- dircction, and tlre intermittent irrtr:rIcnti0rr since thcn of cvery branch of plor'- €'rnntt,nt lo sL'nd thc p1'11611111111, buck torvtrrd ctluality for irl:rcks. The VUlirrg Itigllts nct ()f ll)r;s was amoqg the most p()tr,nt ()f those int!.i\'('ntions. It:i rtcLl-(.r)n- scious prorisions tvcre il llr.cr.ss:lrv antidOl(. lo lr;g111 apd stilt(. gor',,rri- ments' racc-cr)nscious oi)structiolls erected t() (l(.ny blat:lis politie:rl c'quality. ,\ll p ,rsons of r1t,od *,ill look to tllc dav that l mcc-con- sciOus Votinq Ilight-s r\ct r,,.orrlrl ht, us anacltronistic as thc l'o\.rn)ntlnt behavirtr it \vas desillllr.(l to orrt- law. The courl's intervention Sadll', thut that drt' has not ',.r,r lrrivt.rl cvr,t\'\\'llr.ro. 'l lttrc r',,trs a l)ittlr'fn uf t ltt t, tunsCiotrs:tt.:;s in sotne oI thc N.(]. Ge rrt'rul r\ssr,nt- bl1":; I ltSl r{.'(lisrricting. :\ p1-i1111' cxlrrtlrll. \\'J:j tho oost('rrr N(,rtlr Carolrrtl sCn;rlrrrial (listrict thirt split c()unti(,s t() sl)lit I ho bl:rck \ ulu. r\t lt,ast sotrt,: ol llrst. \!,('(.li.'s iItcl i ('nti{,r) lrv tltc Jt.r(li:r,s il,as jtrs- tif it'd. It is in tllc t'tiltrrrr' (rf pt,ndtrltrrrrr;. hrrrvevt,r, to s\\,in{t lxrcli pest tlre crntcr. /\nd our ft,ilr is tllilt tllL' changcs sotrlrht bv th0 court arc alrnost c{,rlllilt ti) J)(rl)etuilto nr'\\' Iacc-cclltsciorrsn(,ss in th0 nitnl(' {)f I t lllO\ ill;l Uld I:lr r.-(rrDst iorlSil,..s. Sun)o otll('r clrIr isherl virlrr0s 0[ ,,r)l)ullrr llr)\'(,rnn)(.11t will l)(' l{)st irs ,';,.1 l. Defc:cts ancl rentedies .1,r,:lr ;rlr116;1'5 1 ; 111 .,..11 til):1.( r1,....,l :.,,,, 1.,-,\ UIt,,,,,. l;,,, ,,rl rl ' i,tr ,rlr.r\ I it(, ;)r,..r ilr ( (,i ll. ,l,,rtr lrl.rr k ii,r lli,ilr.II {,\l(l,.ri( (. ilr.ltr)lirLli.,, :l (irtirf:,,r ill lll,, t.,,rlnl\..s population, are "subrnerged as a voting nlinorit1,.",\nd it is tru!. that in the count],-\\'ide at-largc 'prin)aries and t'ic.ctions, blaciis havc bt'r:n succcssftrl le.ss often than whitcs. Ilut the probablo "rcnredies" for Mecklrnburg's I Iousc clelegation ar(] not tvithout thcir otvn ltrob- It'nrs. 1'hey $,()uld, for cxanrple,, confine nrost black voting strength to on(. or two districts. 'fhat could, inde c<I, rt'sult in a larilrtr nuntbcr oi blacl< rrprcscntativcs in I{alt-i1ih. Ilut bY conccntritting black votcs, tlte plan r'"ould lttavt' six of thc t'iillrt rcpresentati!,cs effec- tivclt' frcc of obligiltion to nlost l)lircli votl:rs. 'l hose six rvould not huve to court blacks' \.otes as all eiitht (lo no',v. 'l'hose si.\ would not hrvt, to acquaint thcnlsolves with problt'nrs facing tht black conrnru. nit) . fhc result could bt' a serious erosion of black political influcnce - prccisely opposite the cffcct sought by the Voting Iiights Act.'[irilt rvould be. tspcciulll, true of one tlf t.l;e ptrs.sibie renrt'tlies: divirl- ing the count.\, into two districts -a rvhitc district electing six at- largt. rt.prcst'rrtatives :utd a black district clectinli trr.o. r\lrd rvherc \\,ill rtc(,-conscious- ncs.s cnd? If housing and ccononric opl)()rlunities continuc to disperse i\lccklcrrburg's black l)opulation gr,oltraphically, rr'ill legislators be obliged to l(ccp .shifting elcction districts in order to assure lhe l)ropor racial nrixtrrre? !-or horv long? A county pcrspective One final point. Irlecklenburg Cotuttv is nrorc than a fr'w square . ntilcs on tho l)iL.dnlont plateau. lts lrre<lorninantlv urban citrzr.ns have, co I lcc t ivc lr,, nta ny in t crr'sts itr conllllon. 'l-hoso interests are rnost forccfuliy reprcsentcd, bt,fore tlre N.C. Ilouse for examplt', rvhcn Ivlccklt'nburg's eight IIouse nrcnr- bcrs rvork togcthcr, on issues rangirrg from schools to highwavs to taxcs - to o(lurlity undcr the l.rn'. j\t-ltrge t,lr,ctiUrr Itls consis-tclrtlv I)roduccd lcgislutors dr.rli- ciltr (l to felrrcsontirtg llt(' (.()uttt\.'s lrr;1er intt rt.sts. SI)iitting tht c,)urrtY into (ltstncts, l)v tvhatcver l:)r,1il,,(1, |,liirl \\,(,illicil (ltilt :le_r,)ut)l::lrllitv -- lr,,l(llnll. ti r o11 1r.,1;,I r i.lr', Llr'ni,Irrl': ,lftr.ln intr.r,,stS ir, inll ittrlll,,t i,irt,'11,,r1,,,(l Js J \(,1_ irlf.l ,ninrrri(.!"' itr I\\)l tlt (:rr,JliilJ.s rul'itl-(lutiliniltcd lcgisluttrre. @hr Ohartotti @bieruer j' '." ;.'- Sectiorl,, E ^Er.. Thursday, February.2.;198a. 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